Yeah, those guys will be pulled in from a wide area. My thanks in advance for their efforts and sacrifice. I had a great friend (RIP) who worked many storms mostly throughout the southeast and he often talked about the satisfaction he gained from helping put things back in working order. This could be an epic event.
Hurricane Florence
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Nope I am safe on this storm. They did a mandatory evac starting noon Tuesday. Told the wife wait till Tuesday afternoon to make the call; but I doubt she evacs. We are not even in the cone anymore. Feel bad for my friends upstate and in NC/VA area. This storm looks like a monster.
One time they evacuated HHI when I was a kid. My dad and I stayed behind while my grandma,Mom,little Bro and sis hit the road. It took them like 13 hrs to just get to Columbia.
Storm didn’t even come close.
This one has the look of Hugo which was a bad one. Slow moving and perhaps stalling overland kinda like Harvey did over Houston.
Basically everything east of I-95 in N.C. had standing water for quite a while afterwards. I knew some National Guard guys who worked that area for close to a month.
Oops, I believe Floyd was the one that stalled down east for so long. Hugo was massive, but moved thru quickly.
Basically everything east of I-95 in N.C. had standing water for quite a while afterwards. I knew some National Guard guys who worked that area for close to a month.
Oops, I believe Floyd was the one that stalled down east for so long. Hugo was massive, but moved thru quickly.
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HUGO was a monster. I had an uncle who lived on the Charleston Harbor (where eye hit). It was a very old house, but way up on high ground and built well because it didn’t take too much damage as I recall (13 yrs old). storm surge came a few feet short getting into the house.
I do remember visiting months later and it seemed like every tree within 100 miles was snapped in half driving in and out of town.
My grandparents did not evacuate and had to ride it out in their bathtub at their condo. They said it was like a freight train was driving over them for hours and even though they were fine, they would never stay for that again.
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Old graphic, but I remembered seeing it and thought it was fascinating.
Just called my dad and his wife up in southern Virginia to check on their preparations. My stepmother's parents are in their 80's and live in Myrtle Beach. She went through the trouble a couple of days ago of reserving them a hotel room just 2 hours away in Florence, but she's on pins and needles because they've decided to stay home! 
(Her parents live only half a mile from the coast.)
(Her parents live only half a mile from the coast.)
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The Pacific's been active all season....Looks like the Atlantic is trying to catch up.
There are still 1000's of big assed hundred yr old oak trees that are bent over from Hugo in the Charleston area. Hugo did not mess around. My middle school teacher was from Charleston and was in tears in class the day after it hit.
Here is an old link for Ranger with some insight into the Black Mountain area he is considering. One of Asheville’s reservoirs is just north of nearby Swannanoa and is talked about in this article.
These were both lesser storms, but they caused long term damage to our area and killed five people in one landslide alone.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story...ces-ivan-impact-lingers-years-later/15217637/
BTW, as I headed home on I-40 this afternoon there were three caravans of bucket trucks headed east into the danger zone. Hats off to these folks and hopes for their safety... Surely there are others enroute even as I type.
It was hard to read their names in the other direction, but I think they are:
ARC out of Phenix City, AL
Bowlin out of Walton, KY
Townsend (?) out of possibly Townsend, TN or Townsend County, GA
These were both lesser storms, but they caused long term damage to our area and killed five people in one landslide alone.
https://www.citizen-times.com/story...ces-ivan-impact-lingers-years-later/15217637/
BTW, as I headed home on I-40 this afternoon there were three caravans of bucket trucks headed east into the danger zone. Hats off to these folks and hopes for their safety... Surely there are others enroute even as I type.
It was hard to read their names in the other direction, but I think they are:
ARC out of Phenix City, AL
Bowlin out of Walton, KY
Townsend (?) out of possibly Townsend, TN or Townsend County, GA
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Looks like the Carolinas are about to get proper....
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm2eJYEVAAAY9-K?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dm2eJYEVAAAY9-K?format=jpg&name=large
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Looks like the Carolinas are about to get proper....
https://y.yarn.co/ce81e534-6293-40d6-b95a-44413dae853e.mp4
My son is in Raleigh and will be staying there with his friends. I'm in Greensboro, but flying home to Pensacola tonight (Wednesday). I'm supposed to fly back to GSO Sunday, but that may not happen. Got gas in my rental car this morning. Lots of fully loaded SUV's filling up. There's a lot of traffic on I-40 and I-85 already.
That’s one helluva defined eye.Impressive and scary at the same time.
Impressive and scary at the same time.
That heart of the storm is as wide as distance between Ft Lauderdale and Jacksonville! If you look at outflow bands they stretch from Cuba to as high as Long Island.
While I want to make sense of this, all I can think of is "how credible are these words when most meteorologists I know of can't predict a simple downpour 8 hours out?"
You’re right and the bottom line is... they don’t know for sure...
It's all observational data. I'm sure Chimp would agree that there's never a true way of telling what Mother Nature feels like doing.
With all that rain is coming, i would be careful not to venture out with all the pig poop that's going to run off...
https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...8kLLC3VNvViOnHLng1eKdcpWjypOSATk5GTUgqFQmdeW8
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I think you all are seriously missing the true threat with Florence:
In this instance, they only need to be close,
" Close doesn't count, except in horseshoes, hand grenades, nuclear bombs, and mother of god hurricanes."
